Gade N. Akvareller Opp. 19, 57 (Piano Solo)

New York: G. Schirmer, 1895. — 51 p.
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics (vol. 320). Editor Albert Ross Parsons.
First Edition Op.19: Fr. Kistner (Leipzig), 1850 (Book I), 1852 (Book II)
First Edition Op.57: 1881 (publisher?).
Also titled "Aquarelles, fifteen tone-pictures for the pianoforte, op. 19 and op. 57".From www.dacapo-records.DK:
The Aquarelles opp. 19 and 57 were composed with an intervening period of three decades (1849-1881)...
Each of the three volumes of Aquarelles contains five tone paintings with a characterizing title, in various tempi and mainly in easily manageable major keys. These fifteen pieces could in fact be described as études poétiques with the focus on different technical challenges for the piano in terms of articulation, balance among the parts, dynamics, staccato/legato phrasing, passage-playing, rhythmic stability and above all control of sound. It is truly amazing how much Gade challenges the talented amateur pianist in the mastery of the instrument. But as with Chopin’s études and preludes some of the aquarelles manage to expand. A striking example is the calm Notturno in E major from op. 57. A clipped melody has been placed cantabile in the left hand, like a repeated phrase sung by a tenor voice. The surrounding accompaniment is in quick octaves in tremolo. Soon the passage is raised a sixth to C sharp minor, and now the melody is sung by an alto voice. In a lively middle piece theme and harmony fluc­tuate in the region of minor where the melody is so to speak emancipated in the right-hand figurations, while the left hand at the same time conjures up sounds of dark wind instruments. A chromatically descending sequence brings the music back to E major, and the first part is given a short reprise, including a purged retro­spective on what has gone before. In other aquarelles we similarly hear ‘orches­trations’ of the music: Mendelssohn flutes in the Scherzo in A major and a crisp Rossini orchestra in the tarantella-like Capriccio in E flat major, both in op. 19. And with a sweeping gesture Gade creates a truly imaginative fantasia as the conclusion to op. 57, a Capriccio in F major.Akvareller, Op.19 (Watercolors)
Book I
Elegie (E minor)
Scherzo (E major)
Canzonette (A minor)
Humoreske (G major)
Barcarole (F major)
Book II
Caprice (E-flat major)
Romance (D major)
Intermezzo (B-flat major)
Novelette (A-flat major)
Scherzo (A major
Akvareller, Op.57 (Nye Akvareller / New Watercolors or Book III)
Humoreske (A minor)
Nocturne (E major)
Scherzo (D-flat major)
Romance (A major)
Capriccio (F major)